Aftermath of shelling in Donetsk

MOSCOW, June 15. /TASS/. The Ukrainian Armed Forced have violated the ceasefire regime 191 times over the past 24 hours by shelling the territory of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), spokesman for the DPR Defence Ministry Eduard Basurin told a press briefing on Monday.

"The number of the attacks by the Ukrainian side over the past 24 hours totaled 191, with 50 tank shells and 108 82-mm and 120-mm mines hitting the territory of the Donbas region," the Donetsk news agency quotes him as saying.

The ceasefire regime in the war-torn Donbas region formally entered into force on February 15. The demand to halt the hostilities was envisaged by the Package of Measures for the Implementation of the Minsk Agreements. The document was signed by the Contact Group members on February 12. DPR officials have repeated stressed that the observance of the truce depended entirely on the Ukrainian side.